Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-20

laborer. However inconsistent he may
be upon this question, the Democracy
cannot forget that, apart from this, he
has always ably advocated the rights OF
the people and defended the South
against her bitter enemies.
All Democrats should agree in re-
ducing the surplus revenue both
directly and indirectly, and thus do
away with the hundred millions of dol
lars in a more Just manner than the
paupcr pension biu will afford--a cor
ruption fund by which poor Republic
can officials and members OF Congress
even for the last twenty years have be-
come millionaires, and the $500, 900, 900
appropriated for the navy during that
period would better have been sunk
into the ocean on account of its de-
moralizing influence upon public Off
cials and thus upon the masses of the
people. Where are the war vessels and
coast defences the Republicans pro-
missed to build with this Immense
amount wrung from grinding taxes
upon the people a? Perhaps Messrs.
Sherman and Blaine can give the peo-
pie information upon the subject. II
not. how can the Republican party
again ask to be trusted with the purse
and sword of the Union---of the Gov.
eminent ?
We have no navy worthy of the name,
nor coast defences. With what do the
representatives of the Yankee fisher
men, who are now crying loudly fol
war because Canada has taken some OF
their fish, propose to fight the greatest
naval power of the world, since they
would devote the surplus money Of the
Government to paying pauper pensions
Do they propose to levy several hun
bred millions of dollars more upon the
already sorely-oppressed people to build
navy and coast defences which the
Republicans failed to build with $500,
10000? If so, this should be done
under a Democratic Government and
under our present able and honest
President. At least six years more
will be required to accomplish this to q
sufficient extent to render us able to
fight the British lion upon the ocean
and preserve our sea-coast cities from
destruction.
We should be in this condition at all
times. Without regard TO the Yankee
fish question it would be wise to appro-
pirate
PITY MILLIONS
of the surplus proposed to be squan-
dered by the pauper pension bill to put
our navy and coasts in respectable
condition.
That amount expended under Mr..
Cleveland will go vastly farther for this
purpose than the $500, 900, 900 did I'M
der Republican management. Let,
then, the Congress sustain the veto and
thus use the pauper pension fund. II
the prohibitory duties are repealed OF
made but modestly protective the reve-
nue. will be increased thereby, and since
under Democratic rule, there will be
no millionaires to be manufactured,
there will yearly be enough surplus to
vastly relieve our taxpayers and to
build up a navy worthy of the name
one like that which before the war,
under Democratic rule, displayed the
American flag upon every sea and pro-
tected American rights in every land.
Under the ante-war low tariff whilst
the manufacturers prospered the en-
ployes received higher wages, and both
| employer and laborer were contented.
Then there were no labor-strikes, for
monopolies were not by law fostered at
the expense of labor.
Now the oppression of accumulated
capital and monopoly, fostered by the
laws enacted by the Republican party
during the last quarter of a century,
has had much to do with the strikes OF
dissatisfied employees and laborers,
The oppression of capital has, too, en-.
gendered various species of social
and political crdnks to obviate
the ills resulting from monopoly
but the remedies are worse than
the disease. Whilst George proposes
to tax the poor laborer's lot and humble
cottage as high as the millionaire
palace, and thus destroy the value OF
land or enable the rich to monopolize
tllc IuOSI VI IL, OlutI DoCluliSiS anu OOIl-
munists wage war against all property
and teach the right to murder those
whose honest labor has enriched them
when they are called Nihilists. The
Democratic principles which require
that all shall be dealt with Justly as re-
CARDS taxation and revenue distribution
can only remedy these social evils.
Why should Democrats contend about
minor matters when the freedom
and happiness of the people are at
stake? Why should any of them sup
port pauper pension bills, when the de-
fence of the country demands the
money left after the high taxes are
diminished?
If then Congress should fail to sus-
tain the Presidents veto, when the
members appear before the people for
reelection, they may and should realize
the fact that "Quem Deus UuH per
dere. Drius elemental" w. Ct. X,